Senate Bill sb2474

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 2474

    By Senator Haridopolos





    26-1722-04                                              See HB

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to penny-ante games; amending

  3         s. 849.085, F.S.; exempting the conduct of

  4         penny-ante games in described facilities from a

  5         prohibition against soliciting participants

  6         through advertising; providing an effective

  7         date.

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  9  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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11         Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subsection (3) of section

12  849.085, Florida Statutes, is amended to read:

13         849.085  Certain penny-ante games not crimes;

14  restrictions.--

15         (3)  A penny-ante game is subject to the following

16  restrictions:

17         (d)  A person may not solicit participants by means of

18  advertising in any form, advertise the time or place of any

19  penny-ante game, or advertise the fact that he or she will be

20  a participant in any penny-ante game. This paragraph shall not

21  apply to the conduct of any penny-ante game within the common

22  elements or common area of a condominium, cooperative,

23  residential subdivision, or mobile home park, the dwelling of

24  an eligible organization as defined in subsection (2), or a

25  publicly owned community center owned by a municipality or

26  county.

27         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

28  law.

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